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There are 3 points at the end of the article which are basically demands, stated but not supported at all. Why should people who refuse to use technology be co

There are 3 points at the end of the article which are basically demands, stated but not supported at all. Why should people who refuse to use technology be coddled? Why should we blindly refuse all change? If they have an actual objection, they should make it. Anything else is just opposition for its own sake. The points: >Travellers must not be forced to use digital travel credentials. The possibility of using physical travel documents must be guaranteed permanently and not just for the “near future”, as the European Commission is proposing. >Travellers who don’t use digital travel credentials must not be discriminated against. This condition includes that border controls for travellers with physical documents must be equally accessible and sufficiently staffed to enable travel checks in a reasonable amount of time. >Travellers who don’t use digital travel credentials must not, under any circumstances, be affected by the border control technologies required for checking digital travel credentials. Policy options “where all travellers are monitored and their biometric data are processed”, as the European Commission is considering, must be ruled out.

ratg13 3y ago
Asserting that everyone should just buy and have a working smartphone at all times and internet service or you can’t travel is by far the most elitist, out-of-touch with reality comment I have seen on this site. Congratulations.
- LatteLazy 3y ago
  Again though, you have not answered the question. I am not particularly opposed to a paper only process for the tiny number of people who have some legitimate reason they cannot use the main process. But that isn't what is demanded so why should we go beyond the bare minimum to allow those users access? Have some loaner phones (or similar devices) at immigration and let people get on with it? No, people who refuse tech must have all the benefits and not be left behind despite explicitly choosing to be left behind? Why? Also, there is nothing "elite" about owning a smart phone. Especially not if you travel internationally. Pretending otherwise is just silly.
  - LocalH 3y ago
    We need less of our lives to enter the digital realm, not more.
    - LatteLazy 3y ago
      1. Again, that's your opinion, others like me disagree. Either cover WHY you think that is true you are sort of saying "I don't like it and I don't have a reason" 2. This is about the smallest imaginable amount of your life being added to the digital realm. All the data in question is ALREADY in there, on government computers when you get a paper passport and that is what is actually used at border crossings. No one cares about the paper passport except as a receipt for a DB entry. So nothing is actually being moved digital. We are just turning off some printers...
      - xaedes 3y ago
        That official identity documents requiring a smartphone is the "smallest imaginable amount" is questionable. With this proposal I can not even go on vacation without a smartphone. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I still think humans should be able to do basic life actions without a smartphone.
        LatteLazy 3y ago
        Right not you cannot go on vacation without having all your info on a government DB shared with 100 other governments. In future the same will be true but instead of a paper receipt you will get one on an app. That is all that is changing. And you can still do all this with your paper work. It will just take longer, and be more expensive and if you lose it you're screwed.
  - Kim_Bruning 3y ago
    This is not a refusal of tech for the sake of refusal of tech. Nor does it have anything to do with being left behind. A smart phone is a very powerful and practical device. But if we don't take care to prevent it, a smart phone can easily become a dangerous surveillance device. This downside needs to be regulated effectively. I'm not saying you necessarily need to be afraid of your smart phone in the long term. But currently it still feels very much like a wild west, with everyone making surveillance and privacy land grabs. The protections are -as yet- sparse. I think lawmakers need to be more careful and coordinated on this. Possibly I could see people carrying sensitive credentials on their smart phone, but only if it is then also illegal to search it. Or -vice versa- make it legal for law enforcement to search a smart phone, but then make it illegal to store sensitive credentials on it. Allowing both at once is a potential recipe for disaster, because searching the phone can easily lead to a compromise of the credentials (think eg. private keys). To answer your question directly: I think it is pretty sane for people to want to wait out the regulatory landscape here, and not immediately pick up every novelty for the sake of novelty. [ That said, possibly the overton window on carrying papers has shifted a bit in the past 100 years. At one point people thought passports were a temporary WW I thing! : https://theconversation.com/when-world-leaders-thought-you-shouldnt-need-passports-or-visas-64847 https://theconversation.com/when-world-leaders-thought-you-s... ]

ratg13 3y ago

Asserting that everyone should just buy and have a working smartphone at all times and internet service or you can’t travel is by far the most elitist, out-of-touch with reality comment I have seen on this site. Congratulations.

LatteLazy 3y ago
Again though, you have not answered the question. I am not particularly opposed to a paper only process for the tiny number of people who have some legitimate reason they cannot use the main process. But that isn't what is demanded so why should we go beyond the bare minimum to allow those users access? Have some loaner phones (or similar devices) at immigration and let people get on with it? No, people who refuse tech must have all the benefits and not be left behind despite explicitly choosing to be left behind? Why? Also, there is nothing "elite" about owning a smart phone. Especially not if you travel internationally. Pretending otherwise is just silly.
- LocalH 3y ago
  We need less of our lives to enter the digital realm, not more.
  - LatteLazy 3y ago
    1. Again, that's your opinion, others like me disagree. Either cover WHY you think that is true you are sort of saying "I don't like it and I don't have a reason" 2. This is about the smallest imaginable amount of your life being added to the digital realm. All the data in question is ALREADY in there, on government computers when you get a paper passport and that is what is actually used at border crossings. No one cares about the paper passport except as a receipt for a DB entry. So nothing is actually being moved digital. We are just turning off some printers...
    - xaedes 3y ago
      That official identity documents requiring a smartphone is the "smallest imaginable amount" is questionable. With this proposal I can not even go on vacation without a smartphone. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I still think humans should be able to do basic life actions without a smartphone.
      - LatteLazy 3y ago
        Right not you cannot go on vacation without having all your info on a government DB shared with 100 other governments. In future the same will be true but instead of a paper receipt you will get one on an app. That is all that is changing. And you can still do all this with your paper work. It will just take longer, and be more expensive and if you lose it you're screwed.
- Kim_Bruning 3y ago
  This is not a refusal of tech for the sake of refusal of tech. Nor does it have anything to do with being left behind. A smart phone is a very powerful and practical device. But if we don't take care to prevent it, a smart phone can easily become a dangerous surveillance device. This downside needs to be regulated effectively. I'm not saying you necessarily need to be afraid of your smart phone in the long term. But currently it still feels very much like a wild west, with everyone making surveillance and privacy land grabs. The protections are -as yet- sparse. I think lawmakers need to be more careful and coordinated on this. Possibly I could see people carrying sensitive credentials on their smart phone, but only if it is then also illegal to search it. Or -vice versa- make it legal for law enforcement to search a smart phone, but then make it illegal to store sensitive credentials on it. Allowing both at once is a potential recipe for disaster, because searching the phone can easily lead to a compromise of the credentials (think eg. private keys). To answer your question directly: I think it is pretty sane for people to want to wait out the regulatory landscape here, and not immediately pick up every novelty for the sake of novelty. [ That said, possibly the overton window on carrying papers has shifted a bit in the past 100 years. At one point people thought passports were a temporary WW I thing! : https://theconversation.com/when-world-leaders-thought-you-shouldnt-need-passports-or-visas-64847 https://theconversation.com/when-world-leaders-thought-you-s... ]